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Sonu - 07 Aug 2005 21:28 GMT

Hi All,
In VC6.0, whenever I did a "Find in Files" search, I used to be able to just
push F4 and the results would take me to the lines in the source files where
the search item was located. (In other words pushing F4 F4 F4 would show the
search result location in the files, where it found them)
Though, although it is documented that F12 would do this in VS.net 2003, I
can't get it to do the same. I have to double click on each line of help
results to get to the occurance of each result.

Am I doing something wrong, is there a better way to do this?
Thanks for any suggestions
Srishti

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"Peter Huang" [MSFT] - 08 Aug 2005 10:24 GMT

Hi,

Currently I am looking for somebody who could help you on it. We will reply
here with more information as soon as possible.
If you have any more concerns on it, please feel free to post here.

Thanks for your understanding!

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Andrew McDonald - 08 Aug 2005 18:58 GMT

"Sonu" <sonu@online.nospam> wrote...

> Hi All,
> In VC6.0, whenever I did a "Find in Files" search, I used to be able
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> Am I doing something wrong, is there a better way to do this?

The same thing happens on my box. Despite the documentation claiming F12
should perform this, it doesn't do anything. It looks like the
functionality may be even worse in VS 2005 - the new documentation for
the Find Results window resorts to telling you that the up and down
arrow keys move you up and down the list!

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Andrew

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 09 Aug 2005 09:30 GMT

Hi Srishti

Sorry for the delay response!

>In VC6.0, whenever I did a "Find in Files" search, I used to be
>able to just push F4 and the results would take me to the lines
>in the source files where the search item was located. (In other
>words pushing F4 F4 F4 would show the search result location
>in the files, where it found them)Though, although it is documented
>that F12 would do this in VS.net 2003, I can't get it to do the same.

In VS.NET 2003's IDE, the new corresponding shortcut key is F8, if you want
to use another shortcut key instead, you can configure it in the
Options/Environment/Keyboard/ dialog, the target command is
Edit.GoToNextLocation...

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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Sonu - 10 Aug 2005 19:31 GMT

Thanks a lot Gary, I'll try that!

> Hi Srishti
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Jason Doucette - 10 Aug 2005 22:54 GMT

Srishti, note that you could choose the Visual C++ 6 keyboard mapping scheme
within VS .NET 2003, if you are used to the keyboard shortcuts from VC++ 6.

I have a page ( http://www.xona.com/2005/08/02.html ) which shows how to run
a macro that will display all of your current keyboard bindings. I have ran
it for each of the keyboard mapping schemes available within VS .NET 2003.
These results are on display on this same page. From this, I found the
following keys are binded to 'Edit.GotoNextLocation', which you are looking
for:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 default - Global::F8
Visual C++ 2 - Global::F4
Visual Studio 6 - Global::F12
Visual Basic 6 - Global::F12
Visual C++ 6 - none

So, it appears that, even if you used the VC++ 6 scheme, you would still
have to do as Gary stated, and create your own shortcut.

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